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Migration for Metadata-Based Deployments (February 2009)
The SAS Migration Utility analyzes and prepares your SAS 9.1.3 deployment for migration. See SAS Intelligence Platform: 9.1.3 to 9.2 Migration Guide for a complete guide to planning and execution.
The SAS 9.2 Value Proposition
- Why Upgrade to SAS 9.2 Software? (PDF)
- Ten Great Reasons Why a Statistician Should Update to SAS 9.2
Coexistence
Read about running multiple versions of SAS on one computer.
- Peaceful Coexistence: SAS®9 and SAS 8.2
- Peaceful Coexistence: SAS 9.2 and SAS 9.1.3
Sample Validation SOP
See an example SOP: SAS Installation Qualification / Operational Qualification (PDF) (updated 19 May 2008) for the pharmaceutical industry.
Calculators
- Compatibility Calculator
- PROC MIGRATE Calculator
SAS Notes
- Data Migration and Compatibility
- Migration for Metadata-Based Deployments

Migration

This automated calculator guides you to PROC MIGRATE instructions that are tailored to your environment and your library members.

Before you begin:

If you don't know whether you need to migrate your SAS data libraries to SAS®9 format, use the Compatibility Calculator, a similar interactive tool.
A few file types are not covered by PROC MIGRATE and are not included in the calculator. See a special topic.
For help in locating your SAS data libraries, see another special topic.

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